From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-25 version number Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:53:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83lgyicxkh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3owpi3g72p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <831t0bdpm8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474653244 17758 195.159.176.226 (23 Sep 2016 17:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 17:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 23 19:53:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUfT-0002rP-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUfS-0004Js-DB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38350) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUeg-0004IF-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUec-0008Ke-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:51918) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUec-0008Jj-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:52:54 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3958 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bnUea-00060E-11; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:52:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:07:21 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:207743 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:07:21 -0400 > > So master now targets 25.3? Yes. > As predicted, a bunch of bug metadata is now incorrect. Can't help that. > Plus all the instances of "25.2" in master. People who care are encouraged to fix that. It cannot all be the job of a single individual. > Also, it is now unclear what "25.1.50" means in future bug reports. > (An old version of master, or a current version of emacs-25?) It's a question of time; soon enough this problem will go away. > I can't help feeling that this is a predictably confusing and > unsatisfactory state of affairs. I'm sorry for going on about this. It is not helpful to repeat these arguments over and over and over again. The danger was clear many moons ago, when the decision was made, but it was made nonetheless. How it is useful to reiterate the same arguments time and again? To what end?